Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner

eranation 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Linking it here since it's easy to miss. It seems he is using the popularity of this to help a friend recovering from brain surgery, I think this makes this project even more awesome in my book.

https://smith-kyle.github.io/

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999900000999 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Donated. I always thought Playboy manbaby was a solo act nerdcore rapper.

But this is cool.

	▲	eranation 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks! Donated as well. When I grow up I want to have friends that will do the same to me...

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TrackerFF 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thomann had (still have?) this thing called "stompenberg", where they put up some mechanical switching system so that you could play audio files through the actual pedals in the system, and turn on the knobs / parameters.

In the recent years some smaller businesses have started to offer outboard gear in this way. You upload some stem, and can process it through their hardware remotely, and get back the results.

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hunter2_ 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is cool except that the only ad for this I've come across so far was for analog summing. Remote or not, that concept (going out of one's way to theoretically have something more pleasing than digital summing) always smelled like a scam to me. Like ok, maybe a sample rate a hair above what Shannon/Nyquist demand can't do digital summing with all the right IM distortion of the missing supersonic content or whatever, but 192kHz ought to solve for that! So is it something else to be gained via analog summing?

	▲	Nition 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh the options get way better than that. Check these guys out: https://accessanalog.com They have 60+ rack units with little robot grabbers physically controlling the knobs. Re analogue summing, yeah it does near nothing in reality. What you're missing though is that what people actually want with analogue summing isn't really technically better sound but technically worse sound. Analogue gear might have a little bit of harmonic distortion, a little bit of crosstalk between channels, certain transformer characteristics etc that theoretically make it sound more glued together or warm etc etc. But ultimately summing is summing and those differences vs. digital are very small (and won't always contribute positively either).
	▲	peepee1982 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm not interested in analog summing myself, but I think you're missing the point. It's not about "better" summing. You want more euphonic summing. Analog audio processing often comes with artefacts that give the signal sent through it a more pleasing character, for whatever reason (phase shift, saturation, channel differences between left and right, transient modulation, slew rate, power sag, etc.). I personally think analog summing is a waste of time, because the differences are too subtle to be worth the investment in setting it up. But that's just my opinion. Some people are really into it (Eric Valentine comes to mind). Just wanted to point out that in the context of audio equipment (both professional and audiophile) "sounds better" often means "sounds worse but more engaging". Just like a polaroid picture often evokes more emotions than a photo taken with a modern digital camera and a great lens.

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smith-kyle 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No way! My friend and I were half joking about building that as a sequel to realtuner. If nothing else, it'd be a great excuse to buy more gear.

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dbdr an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On Firefox/Linux, after allowing mic access, I get a "Failed to access microphone" above the button, and in the javascript console:

[ws] Microphone error: DOMException: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported.

	▲	cammikebrown 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sounds like normal Linux behavior to me

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copperx 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is awesome, and, at the same time, hilarious. The BOSS tuner is the laggiest thing ever, and we're adding network latency to it!

Maybe we all can pitch in for a Turbo Tuner. Or some vintage mechanical strobe tuner for hipster points!

	▲	smith-kyle 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Let's scale horizontally!

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locusofself an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love it.

But in all seriousness, if you are looking for a good guitar tuner, a lot of the ones on the market are actually not very good.

I highly recommend TC Electronic for clip-on tuner, or Sonic Research or Peterson for pedal tuners.

source: playing guitar for 32 years

	▲	eternauta3k an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Could you go into more detail on why they are bad?
	▲	Humphrey an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I love my TC Electronic clip on tuner!

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CodinM 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tuned my guitar and donated 5$!

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redbluething 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am not sure why this exists, but I am glad it does.

	▲	hshdhdhj4444 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The website explains why this exists. > Real guitarists use real tuners.

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yukapero 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tried it, dope idea. No Pi or tuner req'd really. Why we all love these goofy hacks so bad

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hunter2_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On my Pixel 10 using Chrome, it says "Mic needed - refresh to allow" but refreshing doesn't change anything. It's possible that I did something years ago to prevent whatever permission popup might normally be offered?

	▲	smith-kyle 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Your browser might have microphone access set to "Deny" by default rather than "Ask". This happened to my friend. He changed the setting and it worked, but maybe there's a way to give a more helpful error in this scenario. Let me see
	▲	nosioptar 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Got the same, Firefox on lineageos.